WAY WEST : THE PROOF OF THE DANEHILL PUDDING

Way West
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WAY WEST

They call him the Demolition Man. Three Sundays back, he told us why. The Way Wests sold for R475k, R200k, R160k etc and the men behind them included Brett Crawford, Charles Laird, Herman Brown Snr and Ian Longmore.

 

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ASTRAPACK 1900 Nominations

Andre KirstenThe R300 000 Grade 2 Astrapak 1900, a key race on the Champions Season programme and a vital stepping stone into the 112th running of the Vodacom Durban July for some hopefuls, has drawn a massive entry of 46 horses including a number of major race winners.

Nominations for the race closed on Wednesday and the entries included a six-horse contingent from the powerful Charles Laird stable headed by last year’s Vodacom Durban July winner, Hunting Tower. The team also includes the previous GommaGomma Challenge winner PICK SIX.

There is a strong entry of 18 runners from Cape-based stables with Mike Bass nominating six horses, Dean Kannemeyer four and both Joey Ramsden and Glen Kotzen entering three horses.

The Gauteng entries include five from the Sean Tarry and four from the Mike de Kock yards.

A notable entry from Gauteng is the Makaarem gelding CATMANDU from the yard of Andre Kirsten. The four-year-old has an excellent record of five wins and nine places from 18 starts including placings in the Wolf Power Handicap, the Drumstar Handicap, the Horse Chestnut and an impressive third in the recent Gommagomma Challenge.

The Mike Bass team includes the Jet Master gelding Floatyourboat who ran second in the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate and was strongly fancied to win the J&B Met where he finished just 2.3 lengths behind stable companion, Pocket Power.

HORSE AGE MR TRAINER
FLOATYOURBOAT (5G) 0.0 111 Mike Bass
HUNTING TOWER (5G) 0.0 111 Charles Laird
PICK SIX (4G) 0.0 109 Charles Laird
CATMANDU (4G) 0.0 107 Andre Kirsten
EQUAL IMAGE (ARG) (6G) 0.0 107 X Mike de Kock
JAGGED ICE (5G) 0.0 107 Dean Kannemeyer
APPELATE COURT (7G) 0.0 106 Glen Kotzen
SILVER MIST (5G) 0.0 106 Joey Ramsden
SURFIN’ USA (4G) 0.0 105 Mark Dixon
BRAGGADACIO (4G) 0.0 104 Mike de Kock
HILGROVE (5G) 0.0 104 Mike Bass
LIKEITHOT (5G) 0.0 103 Charles Laird
DESERT LINKS (4G) 0.0 102 Basil Marcus
OUTCOME (4F) 0.0 102 B Michael Miller
TAN CAN (3C) 0.0 102 Dean Kannemeyer
WONDER LAWN (4G) 0.0 102 Dean Kannemeyer
SINGING SWORD (5H) 0.0 101 Tyrone Zackey
APPLE-A-DAY (5G) 0.0 100 Sean Tarry
BILL OF RIGHTS (4G) 0.0 100 Mike Bass
CAUSATION (AUS) (3C) 0.0 100 Charles Laird
KILCOY CASTLE (3G) 0.0 100 Sean Tarry
SILVERPOINT (AUS) (6G) 0.0 100 Mike Azzie
FORK LIGHTENING (6G) 0.0 99 B Sean Tarry
NAUGHTY PRINCE (4G) 0.0 99 Mike Bass
GALAXY (BRZ) (3C) 0.0 98 B Dean Kannemeyer
OLYMPIC GOLD (5G) 0.0 98 Glen Kotzen
RIVER JETEZ (4F) 0.0 98 Mike Bass
SOLAR SYMBOL (3C) 0.0 98 B Charles Laird
NORTHERN TRIBE (5G) 0.0 97 Kumaran Naidoo
BOUND TO TRAVEL (4G) 0.0 95 Alec Laird
BOSANOVA (4G) 0.0 94 Mike de Kock
CAPE TRAFALGAR (4G) 0.0 94 Joey Ramsden
SMART BANKER (3G) 0.0 94 Charles Laird
WEST COAST GOLD (5G) 0.0 94 Michael Roberts
ALTIUS (IRE) (5H) 0.0 93 Joey Ramsden
ISLAND SWING (4F) 0.0 91 B Brian Wiid
GALANT GAGNANT (3G) 0.0 90 B Mike de Kock
MAGICAL BALLAD (6G) 0.0 90 Brett Crawford
WINTER SERENADE (4G) 0.0 89 Sean Tarry
I’M FAIR (ARG) (4C) 0.0 87 Geoff Woodruff
KEEN WARRIOR (NZ) (4G) 0.0 87 Tony Rivalland
METEOR SHOWER (IRE (5H) 0.0 87 B Mike Bass
ROYAL DAY (4G) 0.0 87 Bart Rice
SORBA EL GRIEGO (A (3G) 0.0 87 Glen Kotzen
LONDON GUEST (5G) 0.0 86 Tony Rivalland
HUMBOLDT (3C) 0.0 77 Sean Tarry
(46 Entries)

Extract from SA Horseracing 

KZN Racing Awards

The annual KwaZulu-Natal Racing Awards function was held at at Greyville Racecourse in Durban last night. Summerhill collected 2 trophies including Breeder of the Year.

The awards represent achievements based on the performance of horses which are normally domiciled in KwaZulu-Natal. They were presented at a glittering dinner to honour the top performers, both equine and human, attended by a large gathering of racing personalities.

The three-year-old Qui Danzig gelding, What A Question, owned by Ben and Sue Jonsson in partnership with Rob Hamilton and bred at the Daytona Stud, won three awards including Horse Of The Year.

What A Question also won the Three-Year-Old Colt/Gelding and the Champion Sprinter awards making it a great evening for his trainer, Alistair Gordon. He was also on hand to see his four-year-old Goldkeeper filly, Disco Queen, win the Older Filly/Mare award for her owners, Messrs M Marffy, P H Fisher, T Karnezos, S Marffy and A Papageorgiou.

The Two-Year-Old Filly category was won by Team Valor’s London News filly, Sally Bowles and owners Messrs R L Bruss, P A Deal, Mrs D Bruss and Mrs P D Hardy were awarded for Zebra Crossing winning the Older Colt/Gelding category.

The award for the Champion Two-Year-Old Colt/Gelding was made to Mr D P Marescia’s Count Dubois gelding, Zeeno, trained by Duncan Howells. Former champion jockey turned trainer, Michael Roberts, was on stage with owners Mr R and Mrs E M Pennells, G J Westwater and J T Meyer to receive the award for Silver Empire’s success in the Three-Year-Old Filly category.

The award for Stayer Of The Year went to the Brett Crawford-trained Reveille Boy owned by Mrs Sabine Plattner.

Brandon Lerena received the apprentice award and Sean Cormack was declared the leading jockey of the season.

Dennis Drier was voted trainer of the year and the award for the training achievement of the year went jointly to Corinne Bestel and Duncan Howells.

Summerhill Stud was named breeder of the year and Mxoloisi Mpukane was declared the groom of the year.

The owner of the year award was presented to Mrs Sabine Platter and the special award, for his contribution to racing, was made to owner-breeder Chris Saunders.

A number of Champion Season accolades were also presented.

They were received by Anton Marcus (Jockey), Mike de Kock (Trainer), Lammerskraal Stud (Breeder) and Tony Moodley (Owner) with the Meritorious Award going to owner Chris van Niekerk.

Source: Goldcircle